More than 9,500 people packed The Sandy and John Black Pavilion on the University of Mississippi campus Wednesday, cheering and chanting as Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk headlined TPUSA’s “This is the Turning Point Tour.” Both exhorted students and community members to honor America by pursuing Christian civic values. […]
University of Mississippi student Knox Carter Boudreau was found dead on Friday, Oct. 24 off of Lafayette County Road 303. The cause of death is unknown, though the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office ruled out foul play. On Friday morning, the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive male on Thacker […]
Vice President of the United States JD Vance and CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) Erika Kirk, widow of organization founder Charlie Kirk, will be the featured speakers during the Wednesday, Oct. 29 stop on the “This is the Turning Point Tour” at the University of Mississippi. The event is scheduled to begin at 5 […]
Breese Quinn, University of Mississippi professor of physics and astronomy and director of the UM Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics (UMCMA), was announced as a recipient of the APS (American Physical Society) Fellowship on Friday, Oct. 10. APS is a nonprofit scientific society of more than 50,000 physicists, and the fellowship is an award honoring achievements […]
Four years ago, if someone told Riley Dellenger, a senior marketing major from Ocean Springs, Miss., that she would be named Miss Ole Miss by the university’s student body, she probably would have laughed. But as results were announced on Tuesday, Sept. 30, on the steps of the Lyceum, that is exactly what happened. “My […]
For the international students enrolled in graduate programs at the University of Mississippi, the graduate school experience may differ from that of students with a domestic background. International students first encounter UM in a variety of ways. For Philimon Lutanjuka, a doctoral student in applied linguistics and teacher of English to speakers of other languages […]
The University of Mississippi intends to use funds from the Student Activity Fee (SAF) to provide more university-sponsored events, rather than distributing these funds directly to registered student organizations (RSOs) as it has in the past. The announcement, which was sent to RSO student leaders via email, was made on Thursday by Vice Chancellor of […]
City Grocery Restaurant Group, headed by James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef John Currence, announced the arrival of new executive chef Tory McPhail, another Beard award winner, last month. Also included in the announcement were plans to open a second location of Oxford mainstay Bouré in another city. Bouré falls under the City Grocery Restaurant Group’s […]
Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Kelly Luther has rescheduled the retrial of former University of Mississippi student Timothy Herrington — who is charged with capital murder in the 2022 death of former UM student Jimmie “Jay” Lee — for Dec. 1 in the Lafayette County Courthouse. A representative from Luther’s office confirmed to The Daily […]
It was a busy summer on campus, as work continued on several construction projects and plans for new buildings were announced. To address the shortage of on-campus housing, the university announced a partnership with the private developer Greystar to construct two student housing facilities with 2,700 new beds. One facility will be located on the […]
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